Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-08-04
Tom Bro WINS Gossip.

allow is that" says he.
"Do'ee think I'm fittee one?"
says |.
II shud think you might" says
he.
"Teddn no place for gentry,
says !, "ef twas anything see for
your money twuddn be so bad, but
| wud rather see a couple of don
keys kickin up their heels, or peer
of bosses snortin up again one'tother.
Iss, or / wud rather see two cats
pullin ears"
81 tell'ee what tes," says Joe,
"tes so plain as a pikestaff you don't
knaw nawthin bout Wrestlin. Tes
different thing from it used to be.
Eers aud GERS agone twas sometin
like cock fightin, and bull-baitin,
and boxin. Thas done away weth
now. That was knacked in the
head by the great light of eddi.
cation, but when twas found that
eddcation of itself waddn strong
huff make the world fittee, the
new style of Wrastlin was convent
ed"
"What do'ee main by the new
style?" says /.
"Well, you knaw," gays Joe, Gin
the ovid time the wrastlers was
born in parishes, but now theym
born in countries: that es the prem
cepal Difference. Now, you see, eff
anybody was to git up a game, and
say there wud be a great wrastlin
atween Jack Johns of Gwennap and
jim James of San Dye, why wuddn
nobody go thouse the sticklers and
the umpires, and all the genteel
folk wud turn up the whites of
their eyes, and say what shame it
es for people indulge in such nasty
things But when ties said that
Jack Pearce the great Cornish man
es goin tackle the biggist man the
biggest country in the world can
tud, by Goose thas quite huff make
it conspectable. Now thas what
ties down Druth this day. Ef you
arn't goin | am"
81 shaan't 60" says |.
"Plaise yourself" says he.
81 main 10" says |.
$50 off goes Joe in high glee,
and when he was goin out through
the door, called after un and said
says l-"W hen Incest come back,
| shall be glad knaw the news"
| spose he heerd me, accuse ten
O'clock the Same night who shud
pop in thous Joe9 and j said to
un--
"Well Joe, how did the Wrastlin
go?'
pm vex as fire." says he.
"What for?" says |, ''put through
AIRY?
"Twas the wuss take-in | ever
seed in all my born days"
"Waddn the men there?" says l.
"Iss," says he.
"Waddn there nobody to see?"
says |.
'Thousands," says he.
"Dedn them wrastle?" says /.
"a plenty of it," says he" and
too much. Twas like this eer. Ef
you tie two bosses together by
their tails, which'ee do'ee think
wud kick out the tother's brains
fust? Or eff you light one candle
TO see another with which'ee wud
want snofin fust2 Or eff you keep
ore COW to give another milk,
which'ee wud go dry fast? All
theus things got be took into count,
or You CANT tell nawthin bout
the Wrastlin. For my part I've
seed better fun weth two school
boys tryin hitch, aud as for Cam
borne Ned and Crowan Jan ties
some pleasure look pom they. But
as for Pearce and Keet they was
more haafe the the time settin down
dom nawthin. EFF I'm pointed
pom the committee next time they
shall be paid so much a day, and
then wen put a boss TO keep them
at it. They thrawed away more
than haafe their time day dom
nawthin. By Goose cuddn nobody
say nawthin TO them, acause they
was pom peice work. But then
twas a feer take in."
"rm glad | dedn 60" says |.
"rhe people got maaze," says he,
"acaase they said Pearce Jest
chucked Keet. They said twas a
Shame for man bet he cud
wrastle, aud then 60 in for the
chuckln business"
How was it finished up?" says
/.
"Fiuished up like this eer" says
he, kret stay ed in the ring waIrin
for another hitch, but tother backed
out, and wuddn try no more"
"Who's goin have the money!"
says |.
"Iney tell me-" says he, "that
there was i man out IN the town
afterwards swimming bout his hands